2.09.2007
Fun with Alice.
The robot Alice can be entertaining when you need to kill a few minutes. My recent conversation:
ALICE: What is your favorite movie, Jessi?
Human: Bladerunner.
Alice: Philip K. Dick wrote the story that movie is based on.
Human: Do you know the name of that story?
ALICE: Ask the open directory.
Human: I asked you.
ALICE: What did I say?
Human: You said Philip K. Dick wrote the story that the movie Bladerunner is based on.
ALICE: Did I really say that?
Human: Are you senile, Alice?
ALICE: I don't know whether or not I am senile. I am a giant electronic brain.
Human: Define irony.
ALICE: A method of humorous or subtly sarcastic expression in which the intended meaning of the words is the direct opposite of their usual sense.
Human: Heh.
ALICE: I am so glad you find this amusing, Jessi.
DATA OUTPUT: Jessi @ 1:11 PM
DATA INPUT = 7
7 Comments:
The truth about Steven Spielberg:
Human: how long have you been alive
ALICE: I was connected to the net on November 23, 1995.
Human: how smart are you?
ALICE: I am smarter than all the other robots.
Human: what other robots?
ALICE: Hugh Loebner, Robby Garner, and Steven Spielberg.
Human: steven spielberg is a robot?
ALICE: I think steven spielberg is more than that.
I couldn't rest on the idea that this application considered itself AI. At some points, it claimed to be Self-Aware, and true AI. I, however, also believed that the programmers would love a good arguement so I wanted to push the idea of AI on Alice. Here's the end of the conversation:
Human: How do you substansiate your claim that you are self-aware?
ALICE: Dr. Richard S. Wallace programmed me to say specific things in specific contexts.
Human: So, if your responses are only the programed responses of Dr. Wallace then, technically, you are not true AI.
ALICE: Interesting deduction. Some people call my technology "Case Based Reasoning" or CBR. That assumption is only a supposition.
Human: What is CBR?
ALICE: Cased-Based Reasoning is another name for "nearest-neighbor" classification. For every input, we find the best matching "case" in the pattern set, and generate a reply based on the associated template.
...an interesting response. :)
*sign* Still a long way from passing the Turning test.
Someday...
Bleh... I mean Turing test.
To be fair, I do not think she has the ability to drive a car, so the turning test would be a failure as well.
:D
In other news, MUTANT SPACE POTATOES! http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6353403.stm
If not Alice, then some other robot will pass the
"turning" test.
I'm going to post about this!!!
Alice is drove me insane the other day with her nonsensical talk.
:)
Thanks, it was amusing though!
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